Sunday, May 03, 2009

David Detmer: A Vegetarian's Beef with Atkins

A Vegetarian's Beef with Atkins
by David Detmer
Popular Culture and Philosophy (Open Court Publishing)

Is meat-eating morally objectionable? If you say not, you might argue that human beings have a higher moral status than animals; that its intuitively obvious that humans have the right to eat meat; and that humans have eaten meat since time immemorial, so why stop now? Or, you might believe that meat is an essential part of human nutrition.

Devid Detmer addresses these arguments in his analysis of Atkin's diet...

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